On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:03:24 -0800 (PST), Martin Wegner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A PlugIn works nicely as well. I am not sure which is the recommended > Struts practice.
If you're on a Servlet 2.3 or later container (which is when ServletContextListener was introduced), you should use it instead of plugins: * There are also other listeners that you should explore which are available in this version -- did you know, for example, that you can be notified whenever anyone else in your app adds, removes, or replaces an application or session scope attribute? (In Servlet 2.4 you can do this for request scope too.) * The way a Struts plugin is implemented is to have the init() and destroy() methods called from the corresponding methods on ActionServlet. Technically, an app server is allowed to destroy servlet instances any time it wants to, so you're not guaranteed that destroy() *really* means the application is shutting down. * Context listeners work in non-Struts apps too; one less concept to learn. Craig --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
